The new insert handling in mixer console, with the hidden buttons, makes workflow better or worse?

Edit:Notice where I have the mouse pointer located and what actually happens when I click.This happens all the time for us that have narrow mixer settings (many mixer channels on screen).Take a look the my screenshot gif animation here:

its not useful mostly in narrow fadars view, where its hard to click the insert itself and the hidden buttons popup all the time)(off topic: also the popup color selection on MC under channel name are annoying.. the color should be changed with modifier+click)

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There's also a lot of gray area here. This isn't an all or nothing problem. The hidden button thing bugs me, but would be easy to fix. Having to fly over for status is not useful to those of us who try not to use a mouse. However, that doesn't mean the current insert configuration can't be adjusted/fixed to accommodate control surface/keyboard users.

I don't want the static buttons come back because they waste space. So I don't want invisible buttons to go away, but I definitely want them improved. They are too tedious. It mustn't be that you only can reach certain buttons depending on the scrolling direction! And the "button show up area" has to be much bigger. Also the hidden buttons could show up INSIDE the box and not on the border where you are likely to flip to a neighboring box. The important thing is that buttons are invisible revealing text as long as you do not hover. Once you hover, the buttons can be large and better reachable.

So please:

- keep invisible buttons- but make the hover area bigger, and better to find, e.g. more to the inside of the insert slot- also make the buttons bigger. once hovering they can occupy a lot of space, does not matter, you can read the insert name as long as you don't hover

User123123123 wrote:- but make the hover area bigger, and better to find, e.g. more to the inside of the insert slot- also make the buttons bigger. once hovering they can occupy a lot of space, does not matter, you can read the insert name as long as you don't hover

I don't want to hover ... ever. I want to look and see.

The insert slot size is bigger than before and still displays less information.

TheNavigator wrote:The plugins still hiding behind the mixer is the worst for me.

+1

I can live with the rest, but PLEASE let me keep my plugins in front of my fullscreen mixer.

Unfortunately, there are other functional faults that are hard to live with. But this is definitely one of them. I know I'm probably a minority user with multiple monitors of different sizes. But, the mixer used to work well like that and currently doesn't.

When you buy a new car, do you complain the ashtray, headlight switch and climate controls are not in the same place as the old?

It's not about that. I love other changes Steinberg has made.

The question is: Do you have a hidden switch for turning on and off your car? And you can only see this switch when your finger is touching the surface? And if you move your finger from the left and click to the hidden switch - you accidently open the trunk instead... That is EXACTLY what is happening right now with this method.

JMCecil wrote:There's also a lot of gray area here. This isn't an all or nothing problem. The hidden button thing bugs me, but would be easy to fix. Having to fly over for status is not useful to those of us who try not to use a mouse. However, that doesn't mean the current insert configuration can't be adjusted/fixed to accommodate control surface/keyboard users.

Agreed. I'm not saying we should go back to the way it used to be, just that the current way needs to be changed.

Even though the Mix Console is much better than before, I still think that the issues mentioned here would definitely make its workflow even better. Steinberg needs to look back at the previous mixer and bring back the things it did well. Yes, the mixer in Cubase 6 did not display Inserts and Sends at the same time, but the information it did display was presented all at once and without clutter. That's the kind of functionality that needs to be present in the current mixer.

The other thing, and this is probably of higher priority in my view, is the hidden plugins issue. This needs fixing ASAP!! Even with the single click behavior back, one still needs to click twice every time the plugin goes underneath the mixer (which happens every time the mixer is not the focus; so it happens a LOT). Still a clicking fest.

Well I am really concerned if Steinberg accepts this and removes the hover buttons. They will introduce normal static visible buttons, which consume a lot of space, and you won't be able to read the plugins name / preset name. Alternatively they would introduce an additional line, which eats up even more vertical space that is so inefficiently used already. The resizable design just has such a big overhead of margins and free space between graphical elements. The old mixer was neatly arranged and all space was used perfectly efficient. Now 50% of the screen is just background.

Maybe that is the key. Reduce margins / paddings drastically! Then you have space again for static buttons.

Yes, invisible margins/paddings for the mouse-over buttons should be removed. In other words we want the clickable area to be the EXACT same as the area of the pixels that represents the button.IF hidden mouse-over buttons are going to be used, they should ATLEAST NOT be bigger than the actual background slot when hovered (like they are now). Also, any mouse-over buttons should be seen instantly when hovering them - without any delay.

Don't know about others, but I never use the preset drop-down.I would like if the left side of the *whole* button was the "bypass + on/off" and the right side of the *whole* button was to open the plugin window. Maybe alt-right-side would bring the presets, like alt-"on/off" currently shuts down the plugin.

this poll adresses exactly the scenario why im still on 6.5.I just cannot get used to the increased number of clicks, the worse overview and the randomness when selecting hidden (...hidden!!!!! ) functions

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